Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-11-05
THE RECORD FALSE
"CATO'S" HISTORY OF CAPT.
TAILS CONSPIRACY.
Contradictory Police Evidence Ac
ceptcd by the Corrupt Court.
Manufactured and Paid.
for Evidence
ncsses Vanish.
lCONCLTsION,l ]


Fielden is charged with having
fired into the ranks of the police
Immediately after the bomb exploded;
and the supreme court holds that
"there is evidence of very distinct
and positive character that Fieldcn
shot at the police"
What does this evidence of u "dis-
and positive character" consist Of:
-Four or five p0licemen, no two of
whom agreed in their statements,
swore they saw Fielden use a pistol.
One witness was sure that Fieldcn
shot while standing on the wagon;
another was equally positive that the
shooter stood on the sidewalk, while
third declared that he (Fielden)
stood at the hind wheel Of the wagon
while using his pistol. Yet Bontield,
Captain Ward and Lieutenant Steele
were close to Fielden and did not see
it, while the testimony of Snyder,
Tennes, DIR. Taylor, Messer, HolIo-
way and Ingram, all of whom were
close to the wagon, was positive proof
that Fielden did not shoot.
In this connection it is well to
call the attention Of the reader to
the fact that at the coroner's inquest
nothing was said in reference to
Fielden shooting at the police, nor
did Grinnell, in his opening speech
to the jury refer to it. The fact is
the programme of the prosecution
was entirely changed after the case
had been opened, and it was found
that without this evidence and the
testimony of u witness to the bomb
throwing the case must fall to the
ground. This will account for the
bungling evidence of the police.
As to the charge that Fielden cx-
claimed, "IIere come the blood
hounds Men, do your duty and |
will do mine !" The evidence is
equally unsatisfactory. Captain
Ward, who was near enough to touch
Fielden with his club did not hear
it, yet the two men detectives Haas
and QUINN who swore to Fielden's
using tins remark were respectively
fifteen and fifty feet from the speak
er. Haas, too, admitted that he was
a witness at the inquest, on which
occasion he said nothing of having
heard Ficlden utter these words.
Yet upon the meagre and fllmsy
testimony of these interested wit"ess-
es, who agreed in nothing except
that they saw Fielden shoot, and the
fact that he occasionally spoke at
labor meetings and denounced the
tyranny of capitalists and the law,
the supreme court decides that this
poor man is guilty of murder and
must pay the extreme penalty. Read
the eloquent speech of this great
hearted man in the court, and you
will there find a complete refutation
of all the evidence brought against
him.
Parsons recent statement to the
public is also a complete and irrefut-
able exposition of the Infamous
means adopted to establish his guilt.
The unbiased reader of that docu-
ment can easily conceive how proba-
bly, the same methods were resorted
to in order to make out clear case
against the Others.
Gilmer testified that Spies lit the
bomb in the alley and handed it to
Schnaubelt, who threw it among the
policemen. Now, it was proved be-
yond question that Spies was upon
the wagon with Fielden at the time
the bomb was thrown. Henry Spies
the brother of August-was HIM
self shot in warding off a pistol shot
aimed at his brother. Ernest Leyn-
er, who was conversant with all these
facts, and who helped Spies from the
wagon was witness before the grand
jury and indorsed as one of the wit
nesses for the State, but was not pro-